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Monday, March 6, 2006
Teachers Walking Away
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Heather Vogell, data queen as well as Clayton and Henry schools reporter, crunched the numbers and found Clayton has the biggest problem metro-wide with attrition. Here’s her story.
A 28-year veteran teacher who worked with severely emotionally disturbed children in Clayton told Vogell she went to Henry, because she didn’t think administrators supported her when she was injured on the job. “She tore cartilage in her knee while breaking up a student fight in 2003, and reinjured the knee while ducking to avoid a stick a student at Pointe South Middle had swung at her,” according to the story.
Is the way administrators handle discipline driving teachers away? If so, what can be done?
